The daily meanderings of a teacher

A journal from a teacher

Are we missing Creativity?

Bird Droppings July 5, 2017 Are we missing Creativity? This was another quiet morning as I wandered out and about already birds hiding from view are calling. As for the crickets and frogs as always a beautiful chorus for the morning awakening. Yesterday later in the day several tree frogs visited our back porch…

July 5, 2017
the ability to surmount those learning difficulties

Bird Droppings July 4, 2017 the ability to surmount those learning difficulties We celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I have watched the materialism of our culture run rampant. I am equally as involved planning fireworks and picnic etc. Perhaps I should not have read Russell Means thoughts on the Fourth of…

July 4, 2017
Direction is needed when speaking of velocity

Bird Droppings July 3, 2017 Direction is needed when speaking of velocity Over the past long weekend I worked on several paper ideas, sat in my recliner, dabbled in my yard briefly around rain drops and drove up to the mountains for the day with my wife. But I got thinking back to a…

July 3, 2017
In pursuit of excellence in learning

Bird Droppings July 1, 2017 In pursuit of excellence in learning I am working on one of two papers for graduate school and woke up very early in the morning with several ideas running through my head. I stepped outside briefly and I heard the crickets and tree frogs as the sounds of early…

July 1, 2017
Amazing how intertwined the strands of life really are

Bird Droppings June 30, 2017 Amazing how intertwined the strands of life really are I was asked at dinner Thursday when did I start teaching and I responded at age twelve. The group I was with was thinking I was being my typical sarcastic self. Then I explained I started teaching swimming with my…

June 30, 2017
Can you be dreaming, imagining, thinking, pondering and reflecting all in a few minutes?

Bird Droppings June 29, 2017 Can you be dreaming, imagining, thinking, pondering and reflecting all in a few minutes? I drove to south east Georgia over eight years ago to take my oral exams for my doctorate. This was basically a follow-up face to face with my committee of professors and in turn responding…

June 29, 2017
Constructivism: Montessori, Piaget, Vygotsky, Dewey and others

Bird Droppings June 28, 2017 Constructivism: Montessori, Piaget, Vygotsky, Dewey and others With the bulk of education in the early 1900’s following closely the Industrial Revolution and mass production, a few great thinkers took the concept of the individual child in psychology and education in new directions as to its relationship to children. How children…

June 28, 2017
Today should always be a first day

Bird Droppings June 27, 2017 Today should always be a first day “I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.” Lone Man (Isna-la-wica)Teton Sioux So often in life we think we are the one. We can do it all on our…

June 27, 2017
How difficult is it finding ourselves within the fog of education?

Bird Droppings June 25, 2017 How difficult is it finding ourselves within the fog of education? “The more sand that has escaped the hourglass of life, the clearer we should see through it.” Jean Paul Sartre As I was looking for thoughts and ideas to start, I actually was going a different direction…

June 25, 2017
Why is seeking peace so difficult?

Bird Droppings June 24, 2017 Why is seeking peace so difficult? “In this week of great destruction, we must each choose what road we are to walk and live. The road of destruction is war, it has always been so. The road of creation is deeper and more complicated; it has always involved forgiveness,…

June 24, 2017